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J. R. CARTER.

MANIFOLD COPYING BOOK. No. 252,646. Patented Jan. 24,1882.

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MANIFOLD COPYING-=BOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of- Letters Patent No. 252,646, dated January24, 1882.

Application filed November 8,1881.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN ROBERT CARTER, of the city of Toronto, in thecounty of York, in the Province of Ontario, Canada, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Manifold Copying-Books, of whichthe following is a specification.

The object of the invention is to provide a check-book in which theblack leaf used for transferring writing from one page to another neednot be handled and will not have a tendency to curl up after a number ofleaves have been torn out; and it consists, essentially, ofa

lack-leaf check -book composed of double leaves, one half of which arebound together, while the other half are folded in as fly-leaves, bothbeing perforated across, so that they can be readily torn out, the-blackleaf being bound into the book next to the cover and provided with atape bound across its end, the said black leaf having the transferringcomposition on one of its sides only.

The drawing represents my black-leafchcckbook, the cover being held openby one hand, the fly-leaf being raised by another, and the black leaffolded back, so as to show the transferring composition 011 its bottomside.

A is the cover of the book. B is a fly-leaf attached to or forming partof the leaf C. The leaves B and C are separated by perforations runningacross the crease. Similar perforations running across the leaves 0,near the binding, enable this latter, leaf to be torn out, leaving onlyastub, D.

E is the black leaf, bound with the other leaves, but next to the coverA. I This leafhas a transferring composition on its under side only, andis provided with a tape, F, bound across its lower end, as shown. Thistape enables the black leaf'to be folded back or raised without soilingthe fingers. then the book is about to be used the black leaf E is laidflat upon the face of the leaf O, the transferring (No model.)

composition on the under side of the leaf E resting on the face of theleafC. The leaf B is then allowed to rest on top of the black leaf E,and when the necessary memorandum is written upon the leafB it istransferred onto the leaf O. The leaf B may then be torn from the leaf 0and the latter leafremoved from the stub. Adouble leaf correspondingwith B and G will then be exposed and'the operation repeated, asdescribed.

It will be seen that a book made in this manner will be less bulky thanif all the leaves were bound into the stub, and there would be lesslikelihood of the black leaf becoming crumpled up than ifit were placedin the center and the leaves removed from the stub on either side.

lam aware that black leaves are med in other forms of books used intransferring writ.- ing from one page to another; but they areeitherloosein the book,and are therefore easily lost and are dirty tohandle, or are placed in the center of the book and the leaves numberedon either side of it, which latter arrangement is faulty from the factthat the space left on each side of the black leaf when the leaves aretorn out causes the black leaf to curl up and become unsatisfactory inits operation.

What I claim as my invention is- A black-leafcheck-book composed ofdouble leaves, one half of which are, bound together,

wvlrilo the-other half fold in asfly-leaves, both being perforatedacross, so that they-can ri-a'dily be. torn out, and the black leafbound into the book next to the cover, and provided'with the tapesecured across its end, the. said black leaf havingthe transferringcomposition on one of its sides only.

JNO. R. CARTER. Witnesses:

C. W. BALpWIN, H. H. WARREN.

